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Latest Trends in the Pizza Franchise Industry

“What’s more American than a slice of piping hot pizza?”

While that question contains its share of irony, it does a pretty good job of summing up the long-standing love affair Americans have enjoyed with the perennial winner of the “what’s your favorite food?” contest: pizza.

And the numbers prove that the nation’s love of pizza won’t be cooling off anytime soon:

One in eight Americans will eat pizza on any given day. About 350 slices of pizza are consumed in the U.S. every second. 93 percent of Americans (over the age of two) eat pizza at least once per month. Three of the five fastest growing restaurant chains in the U.S. last year were pizza joints.Of course, this has been the case for decades now, which is why pizza has been — and continues to be — one of the most popular restaurant categories in the nation. While every new restaurant faces challenges in a competitive marketplace, given the right conditions, it’s tough for a pizzeria to utterly fail, given…